The Sportman and Naturalist in Canada
KING, Major W. Ross
Or, Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds and Fish of that Country.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Hurst & Blackett, 1866
Stock code: 41440
Price: £360.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (wanting original paper guard), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original paper guards present) and 13 engravings in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down and separately printed errata slip mounted facing Preface. Henry Ashworth James, of Herstmonceux Place Sussex, was father of aviation pioneer Wing Commander Sir Archibald James MC; this copy was formerly in the latter's library.